<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="2.0"><channel><title>Statecraft and Wordcraft Articles - Brought to you by JoeUser</title><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/rss/articles</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2008 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>This blog explores the contemporary political and cultural trends from a distinct perspective</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDate><lastBuildDate>2008-07-25T15:17:38</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0, Andrew Powell</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>apowell@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/319117</comments><description><![CDATA[The peace in the middle east seems to be extremely difficult because both Israel and Palestine are locked in a state of mutual recrimination: peace with justice means that the existing paradigm for ordering the relations between the two societies has to be reconsidered. The Ashkenazi elite from eastern Europe and Poland that is essentially the ruling aristocracy of Israel has dominated the politics of Israel since 1949 and given its long association with Zionism is unlikely to support the obviou...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/319117</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/319117</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>The Israeli-Palestine Question</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/318069</comments><description><![CDATA[Nearly a century back two young scholars from Oxford University, B P Grenfell and A S Hunt set out to excavate a site on the banks of the Nile in Egypt at a time when the tensions between the French and the British over the status of Egypt was particularly accute. Napoleon had already discovered the antiquities of Egypt and had published them in 11 volumes and Joseph Champillon had read the Rosetta's stone thereby unlocking the secrets of Egypts past. Just at a time when the pursuit of archaeolo...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/318069</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/318069</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>Oxyrhynchos: History from a garbage heap</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/317128</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;<br/><br/><br/><br/>&nbsp;<br/><br/><br/><br/>&nbsp;<br/><br/>A remarkable discovery has recently been announces by the National;Geographic Foundation. In Viginia the home of the first President General George Eashinton has been found and excavations are presently underway.The expensice hand painted pottery excavated at the site suggests that the people owning that site were very wealthy as the creamware pottery is a sure status marker, to use an archaeological jargon. The picture of the pine bears a masonic symbol...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/317128</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/317128</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>THe Childhood home of George Washington Discovered in Virginia</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/315797</comments><description><![CDATA[While the two presidential candidates battle each other a quiet game is being played out in Iraq. Some may say that the gambit currently undeerway is the end game as far as Iraq is concerned, others may say that it is the beginning of a new phase in US occupation of Iraq. The UN security council resolution by which the "coalition of the willing" operates in Iraq expires in Cecemer 2008 and US diplomats and the Bush Administration even in the dying days of its Presidency is preparing the ground f...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/315797</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/315797</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>Bush and the end game in Iraq</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/314144</comments><description><![CDATA[Barack Obama seemed to be making all the right noices, well, until he clinched the Democratic Party nomination. The speech given&nbsp; before the AIPAC yesterday came as a huge surprise to me. I did not expect him to break the traditional frienship with Israel, but I did not expect him to sign on to the extreme right wing interpretation of Israeli-US relations. Obama was of course courting the powerful jewish American vote and we are all realistic or cynical enough to understand that the ocassio...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/314144</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/314144</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>OBAMA, ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/314076</comments><description><![CDATA[As of now Barack Obama has secured enough delegates to clinch the nomination for the presidential elections in November 2008. This much was never in serious doubt since Super Tuesday in March. It would not be correct however to believe that given the unpopularity of the Iraq War and George W Bush that a Democratic victory is a sure thing. Nothing can be further from the truth. Obama has&nbsp; avery tough fight on his hands and can use evry vote he can cadge out of a reluctant electorate.<br/><br/>For ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/314076</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/314076</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>The Long Road ahead for Obama</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311820</comments><description><![CDATA[There is an air of confidence in the Obama camp; and this air of confidence is premature. I watched the interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, and I felt that the magic touch which enabled Barack Obama to connect with his audience was just not there. The hectic campaign season has perhaps taken its toll.<br/><br/>It would be utterly wrong on the part of Barack Obama to assume, given the unpopularity of the Iraq War and the state of the economy to assume that victory is just round the corner. While it is ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311820</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311820</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>Will Barack Obama win in November 2008</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311816</comments><description><![CDATA[It is always a difficult task to write the life of a living writer, and that too the biography of an opiniated and at time infuriatingly controversial, but highly talented writer, like V S Naipaul. Partick French has succeeded in doing just that:A narrative of the lfe of V S Naipaul from the sugar cane fields of Trinidad to the hieghts of Nobel fame and glory. The World is What it is covers the life of V S Naipaul from the vantage point of uncovering the man behind the books, it is reverntial wi...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311816</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311816</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>The many lives of V S Naipaul</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311211</comments><description><![CDATA[The great writer and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison wrote once that "White skin notwithstanding, Clinton is our first black president. Blacker than any actual person could ever be elected in our childrens' lifetime". With this kind of endorsement, it is hard to fathom the fact that his wife hasd dropped to single digits as far as Arican-American vote is concerned.<br/><br/>The real reason for this fall is not hard to find. The highly negative campaign she ran against Obama made many believe that she...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311211</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311211</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>Senator Barack Obana and the African-American vote</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311210</comments><description><![CDATA[The great writer and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison wrote once that "White skin notwithstanding, Clinton is our first black president. Blacker than any actual person could ever be elected in our childrens' lifetime". With this kind of endorsement, it is hard to fathom the fact that his wife hasd dropped to single digits as far as Arican-American vote is concerned.<br/><br/>The real reason for this fall is not hard to find. The highly negative campaign she ran against Obama made many believe that she...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311210</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311210</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>Senator Barack Obana and the African-American vote</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311202</comments><description><![CDATA[It looked as though all was lost for Senator Barack Obama, just a few weeks back. How he faught back. He won very convincingly in North Carolina winning nealy 93% of the Afican-American vote and nearly 40% of the rest of the state. Those who said that Obama can win only small and inconsequential states will have to reassess their early opinions. Even in Indianna, the Lake County votes have still not been counted as I write and it is likely that Obama may even win there. Hillary Clinton has not w...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311202</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/311202</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>OBAMA WINS NORTH CAROLINA</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/308977</comments><description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's<br/><br/>&nbsp;<br/><br/>speech on race and racism has quite honestly triggered an avalanche of interest in the whole issue of slavery. I recently bought Marcus Rediker's The Slave Ship: A Human History and having read this wonderful book would like to share my thoughts with the bloggers on this site.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Dr Rediker is currently the Professor of History at the University of Pittsburg and has taken his Ph D from the University of Pennslyvania. He is a noted maritime historian and has an ear...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/308977</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/308977</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>The Slave Ship: A Human History</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/307050</comments><description><![CDATA[The recent speech by Senator Barack Obama raised once more the spectre of race and slavery in the USA and indeed, in other parts of the world. On this anniversary of the Jamaican Slave uprising of 1768 I would like to reflect on this issue from a historians perspective. Race, I must add is too important an issue to be left only to social workers and politicians.<br/><br/>The rise of the Atlantic Slavr trade was made possible by a combination of 3 factors: First, the interniecince watrfare among the Af...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/307050</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/307050</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>Slaver and the Politics of the Obama Campaign</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/305351</comments><description><![CDATA[Race as a political issue exploded in a big way due to the indiscreet sermons of the pastor of the United Trinity Church, Rev Jermaiah Wright. The US media is aghast at the observation of the pastor that racism is alive and truly well in the USA. The liberal media that has thrived on the general atmosphere of political correctness is unable or unwilling to face up to the reality of racism in the social and political life of the USA. Senator Barack Obama gave a speech in Philadelphia in which he ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/305351</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/305351</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>Senator Barack Obama and the Issue of Race</title></item><item><author>Bahu Virupaksha</author><comments>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/305350</comments><description><![CDATA[Race as a political issue exploded in a big way due to the indiscreet sermons of the pastor of the United Trinity Church, Rev Jermaiah Wright. The US media is aghast at the observation of the pastor that racism is alive and truly well in the USA. The liberal media that has thrived on the general atmosphere of political correctness is unable or unwilling to face up to the reality of racism in the social and political life of the USA. Senator Barack Obama gave a speech in Philadelphia in which he ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/305350</guid><link>http://bahuvirupaksha.joeuser.com/article/305350</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:17:38 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-25T15:17:38</pubDateParsed><title>Senator Barack Obama anissued the Issue of Race</title></item></channel></rss>